True but they do play round robin, which is more than fair. Football conferences have never been double round robin except in the very old days with much smaller conferences. Imagine a scenario where Team A beats Team B by 50 but loses to them by 1 in the CCG. It's one thing in two division conferences but ridiculous in single division conferences.

(12-02-2017 09:29 PM)esayem Wrote: I think conferences shouldn’t be forced to have divisions if they have 12 teams. How dumb is that rule when 10 team conferences can reap the benefits?

The ACC could settle a lot of scheduling issues by not being forced to have divisions. Ultimately, divisions create fabricated yearly bouts like Texas A&M-South Carolina and Louisville-Virginia. It would have benefitted the old Big XII by allowing Oklahoma and Nebraska to play every year. All the Cali schools in the Pac 12 could go back to playing each other yearly as well.

The old school 12 team SEC (with GT and Tulane) didn’t have divisions and they were fine.

The only good thing about divisions is that it eliminates a back to back repeat game.

(12-02-2017 03:57 PM)DavidSt Wrote: I say BS on the elite name schools. They are old school, and most of them have falling to second fiddle like Miami florida. The hot name teams are in the G5, and adding any schools from the G5 would bring excitement to the conference. There are P5 schools that do not belong in P5 anymore while G5 schools who attract more of a tv following are getting the shaft. Schools should be paid for on tv performance in ratings instead of name brand.

Adding more schools would minimize Texas and Oklahoma options. And while you might disparage those old powers DavidSt, those are the very schools the G5 want to associate with. The top of the AAC would want to be in the B12 without those power schools.

(12-02-2017 09:29 PM)esayem Wrote: I think conferences shouldn’t be forced to have divisions if they have 12 teams. How dumb is that rule when 10 team conferences can reap the benefits?

The ACC could settle a lot of scheduling issues by not being forced to have divisions. Ultimately, divisions create fabricated yearly bouts like Texas A&M-South Carolina and Louisville-Virginia. It would have benefitted the old Big XII by allowing Oklahoma and Nebraska to play every year. All the Cali schools in the Pac 12 could go back to playing each other yearly as well.

The old school 12 team SEC (with GT and Tulane) didn’t have divisions and they were fine.

The only good thing about divisions is that it eliminates a back to back repeat game.

(12-02-2017 09:21 PM)RUScarlets Wrote: Well playing 8 conf games gives a higher probability of avoiding a rematch in the CCG by default. Only take a game out if you schedule P5 OOC and not pull an SEC pre rivalry weekend.

I don't know what's going to happen this year. I think Bama's OOC is decent this year but they play that crap FCS game pre rivalry weekend and it may cost them.

3 quality OOCs should be required for P5 conferences only playing 8 conf games.

You Big Ten guys have no concept of how hard and challenging it is to play in the SEC. I’ll give you an example: for years, the Florida Gators always scheduled a bye weekend right before the Georgia-Florida game. Want to know what team won most of the time, pre-Mark Richt, pre-Kirby Smart? Try Florida, in a dominating fashion. Coach Richt, after unsuccessfully petitioning the UGa administration to get the Georgia-Florida game out of Jacksonville, finally figured out what UF was doing and why Florida had an edge in the rivalry game: a bye week before the game. Richt and UGa’s administration lobbied the SEC office for a bye week at the same time, and finally got it. The results are clear. LSU does the same thing before they play ‘Bama. While an OOC matchup on pre-rivalry weekend is likely to be boring, think of it how the NFL does the scheduling for NFC North or the AFC West, etc. Those are much harder divisions to win than say NFC South or even the NFC East. Similarly, the SEC is much more brutal than the Big Ten , the PAC 12, etc. The ACC , to its credit,is getting a lot harder to win as seen by Jimbo Fisher bolting FSU for Texas A&M, although I’m kinda surprised he didn’t give the Big Ten a serious look.

Big 10 East has proven to be the toughest division from a collective standpoint since Harbaugh showed up, followed by the SEC West. Do we need byes before every tough game now? Sorry but it just makes no sense. The season is long enough as it is. It starts Labor Day before the NFL season.

They need to stop scheduling FCS and add another conference opponent. Couldn't be more obvious than that. What if OSU had scheduled a MAC or North Dakota instead of the Iowa game? They probably still would have lost considering how bad they played, but still, it's a different animal.

Look at Bama's OOC schedule next year and tell me that's a championship schedule? I actually liked Bama this year over OSU, but next year they have no chance if they do not win the SEC outright with the best P5 record.